Bastille linux and Red Hat equivalent to YDL

[Mdean]

My best advice is to switch to gentoo PPC so you can avail yourself of 
the latest and greatest security stuff.   Why try and make an old dog do 
work?

Steven J. Norton wrote:

>I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this question, but here goes:
>
>I'm building my own web server with YDL 3.01 (on an old beige G3), and I'm
>very interested in securing the server as much as possible. Among the many
>other resources I've come across, one useful one is Bastille -- which is
>essentially a set of perl scripts that walks you through securing your
>system. Earlier versions of Bastille were labeled architecture-independent
>(*.noarch.*), but more recent ones are specific to i386 (and the RPMs just
>won't work).
>
>Now, since Bastille is mainly just perl scripts, and it is very focused on
>Red Hat (and since YDL is Red Hat-based), I thought I might be able to use
>it anyway. I got the "source" tarball, which included an install script that
>installed the various pieces necessary. I got as far as being able to run
>the interactive program (InteractiveBastille), when it gave me an error
>about specifying an OS. The list it provided included many versions of Red
>Hat, among others.
>
>Questions:
>1) Is there a version of RH Linux that corresponds to YDL 3?
>2) If I tell it I have some version of Red Hat, will this work?
>3) Bastille's documentation also says that its graphical interface requires
>perl-Tk, but I haven't been able to find a ppc version of that. Is it
>perhaps rolled into more recent perl releases? Ditto perl-Curses for a
>command line interface.
>4) Is this hopeless, or is it worth trying?
>
>Any advice appreciated. Thanks!
>
>Steve Norton
>
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